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  • The KING of the Wood – from Mahatma

    The King of the Wood is now a legend of lore in fires forged by El Diablo……Hokie.

    That said I apologize for the delayed BB as the work out was written in Elf dust.

    So like many prior beatdowns YHC attempted to establish a “serious” tone by calling out “grab assing” and “jaw jacking” which actually backfired as should be expected. So with the chatter of a school girl soccer team we headed to the field for the warm up.

    Speaker in place with a “planned” playlist blaring tunes for mental distractions.

    Standard cadence of 5-10 ea
    SSH
    ABVAGODA
    GOOD MORNINGS
    MNT MAN POOPERS
    BURPEES

    Before the fun began the “Greenie” rule was established. This was adapted from Willie saying how the Uptowners deal with tune disconnect. Any time a PAX doesn’t like the tune they can change it with a penalty of 5 Burpees – each time the same pax changes a tune their penalty increases by 5 so 2nd = 10 3rd = 15 and so on.

    There was a battle over hated and favorite tunes between War Eagle, Fast Tax, Boo-boo, Rudy and maybe Handgranada. And plenty of penalty burpees!

    So the beatdown was 25 x various exercises some single some double. Finishing with a 100 yd bear crawl then the finale: A/C D/C’s Burbee Thunder Struck – roughly 30-34 depending on your hearing.

    COT

    Congrats again to Hokie the hard charger that was etched history!

    Proud to have the opportunity to lead and know that I push buttons but it’s nothing personal just trying to get the most out of all of us

    SYITG

  • Happy LiveAid Day! – from Rudy

    37 years ago today. Live Aid. July 13th, 1985. For those of us of a certain age, it might be hard to overstate how big of an event this was. This was early MTV days (music videos!). Concerts were still treats (because I had no real source of income). But I remember watching and listening to the whole thing – the mystery of Phil Collins hitting BOTH stages. IN THE SAME DAY. So today, as I earn my name on the bat alongside Hokie, I put together a Live Aid playlist.

    The Workout:
    Filled up the MINI with a whole bunch of toys from around the house. Battle rope. Bricks. Cinder Blocks (oh, I’ve missed you aNDy!). Logs. Weights. Cones. A lonely Medicine Ball. Thanks to the early arrivers (War Eagle, Charmin, Bogey) who helped me haul all of this from the car out to the field. Get them arranged in a circle and then ponder the eternal Q question “Uh, how many PAX today?” Would I need 6 stations? 16 stations? One never knows.

    Warm Up: somewhere around 10 PAX in the circle at 530. So a mosey around the football field border. Vagabond coming in hot. Then Hokie. BooBoo with the usual Orange Waterbottle (is he EVER without that?).

    Circle up next to the flag (yup, I even brought one of those). SSH, IW, Windmills.

    Meanwhile, the playlist is pushing out Bryan Adams “Summer of 69”

    Next up: trying to herd cats. we’ve got 13 people. so make do with 12 stations. The timer is run a half-a-lap holding the Wood-let/Toothpick overhead.
    * Burpees
    * Medicine Ball PushUps (Diamond or Stagger, your choice)
    * Big wooden Stump Crunch (or Hammer)
    * Butter Fly w/ Weights
    * Battle Rope (in Squat)
    * Dips (yup, we hauled a bench out to the middle)
    * Bear Crawl/Crawl Bear (about 20 yds out & back)
    * Rifle Carry a Cindy Block (again, about 20 yds0
    * Calf Raises on the other Cindy (WHOA Pillsbury! You ok there??? Hold onto the Flag!)
    * Brick Shoulder Taps
    * Curls w/ Weights
    * The big old log – Overhead or Bench Press

    12 stations. I do appreciate Frac BARKING instructions when it was his turn to run with the bat. We need more PAX who are less disruptive! (nah, that’s no fun…)

    Oh by the way, any PAX could buy a “skip” for the cost of 6 burpees for themselves PLUS 2 burpees for Charmin. (One time Charmin attempted to tell YHC that the Q couldn’t just tell 1 PAX to do something. I believe he has been corrected of that misconception.)

    So as we skipped through Sting’s Message in a Bottle (too slow), We Are the World (too cheesy) Madonna’s Get Into the Groove (Madonna?!?) and a few others – Charmin got plenty of burpees in (so did War Eagle for that matter).

    2 songs were Q-declared NO SKIP ALLOWED: Roll with the Changes (REO!) and Radio GaGa (Queen)

    13 loops through got us to 605. Partner up with one pair bricks each. PAX1: Floyd Mayweather. PAX2: Crab Walk/Walk Crab 20 yds out & back. Rinse and Repeat. Finish with a final 3 burpees for Charmin as we hit 615.

    COT: Count Off. Announcements. My word for the day – Intentionality. Asked all the PAX to frame a thought of something they are thankful for, and then commit to INTENTIONALLY showing their thanks to that person today. Not accidental (i.e., we all try to be nice to our family). But intentionally. Above and Beyond the norm. Something done specifically AND explicitly to show appreciation and thanks.

    War Eagle took us home. And THANK YOU to the PAX for helping me haul all this stuff back to the car (where Hand Gernada discovered, apparently for the first time, that YHC has ND stuff plastered all over his car….)

  • Full-body Beatdown Bonus Burpees – from Bolt

    Warmorama Rapper’s Delight edition
    The Thang: make our way from exercise pad near flag to exercise pad on David Dr. side using the path via alternating side shuffles, stopping at each bench for five burpees (Frac is a semantics stickler and informed us a picnic table is a picnic bench therefore a burpee station). Arriving at the exercise equipment, we assumed the following stations: pull ups, dips, leg press, incline bench, horizontal lat pull, rower, incline sit ups for tabata sets of AMRAP then rotate counterclockwise (a concept War Eagle’s millennial brain couldn’t follow, thus chaos ensued). Return to flag via same route, method as before. Frac was pleased he exceeded his RDA of burpees during a beatdown. Welcomed FNG, stroganoff, who is Glamper’s 15yo 2.0.

  • A squirrel while doing squrls – from Boo-Boo

    After the standard disclaimer. PAX moseyed to the rock pile for warmup including SSH x 31, Arm circles 10 forward/ 10 backwards, Abe Vigodas x10, Grass Grabbers x10, Mountain Climbers x 20, and Toy Soldiers aka Hairy Rockettes aka Kim Jung-uns.

    PAX were instructed to grab a medium rock and proceed to the parking lot near the “running path.”

    LT. Dan across parking lot to the gym.

    3 sets of 25 (Or is it two? Let’s stick with three) triceps extension/chest press (75 total)
    Mosey 50 yards, 10 mountain climbers (2 is 1), and Bernie Sanders back

    SSH waiting for 6

    3 sets of 25 rows (75 total)
    Karaoke 50 yards, 10 American Hammers (2 is 1), and Karaoke back

    SSH waiting for 6

    3 sets of 25 (75 total) squrls (squat, curl)
    Mosey 50 yards, 10 LBCs, and mosey Back

    Tclaps to Rudy, who was the only PAX to complete the third set of squrls. Ironically, on his return mosey, Rudy chased a squirrel (while yelling “squirrel, squirrel”) that was innocently trying to cross the parking lot on its way to get some breakfast.

    Once PAX gained their composure from Rudy’s delirium caused by oxygen deprivation, they returned their rocks and moseyed to the flag.

    COT, prayer lead by War Eagle, OUT! It’s always an honor to lead HIM and helps me to become a better leader.

  • Just for the Record – from Mahatma

    YHC was already pushing the clock to arrive with a few minutes to set up……coming down the street the red flashing lights was a signal…..patients. YHC was confident that the Pax would carry on and after planting the speaker on the field, he headed towards the sound of cadence where War Eagle had just finished the warm up and it was time to work.

    Everyone grab your favorite medium size rock and line up for an overhead Indian run to the field. We planted our rocks midway then headed the bleachers.
    Several rounds of rail exercises with one merkin climb up to the top of the bleachers mixing in some big boy sit ups at the bottom. Once everyone had enough we moseyed back to the field for a concert……Phil Colins “in the air tonight” – plank throughout with merkins during the good part holding plank again to the end approx 5:30. Then AC/DC “Thunder Struck” burpees on every mention of the word “THUNDER” YHC estimated 36 but was caught on several attempts trying to entice the Pax yet the hearing was very good.
    Now time for rock exercises – OH press, curls, rows, front raises, chest press. TriCep press……you get the picture. As the music died we returned the rocks the same way we came, Indian style.
    5 minutes of Mary then back to the flag.

    COT

  • Just for the Record – from Mahatma

    YHC was already pushing the clock to arrive with a few minutes to set up……coming down the street the red flashing lights was a signal…..patients. YHC was confident that the Pax would carry on and after planting the speaker on the field, he headed towards the sound of cadence where War Eagle had just finished the warm up and it was time to work.

    Everyone grab your favorite medium size rock and line up for an overhead Indian run to the field. We planted our rocks midway then headed the bleachers.
    Several rounds of rail exercises with one merkin climb up to the top of the bleachers mixing in some big boy sit ups at the bottom. Once everyone had enough we moseyed back to the field for a concert……Phil Colins “in the air tonight” – plank throughout with merkins during the good part holding plank again to the end approx 5:30. Then AC/DC “Thunder Struck” burpees on every mention of the word “THUNDER” YHC estimated 36 but was caught on several attempts trying to entice the Pax yet the hearing was very good.
    Now time for rock exercises – OH press, curls, rows, front raises, chest press. TriCep press……you get the picture. As the music died we returned the rocks the same way we came, Indian style.
    5 minutes of Mary then back to the flag.

    COT

  • BBB (Bolt’s Beast Builder) – from Bolt

    Warmorama: Rapper’s Delight edition with an emphasis on the parts used in burpees. The Thang: 100 burpees for time and with the mantra of, “Leave No Man Behind, Leave No Man Where You Found Him” we will all continue supporting those still pushing themselves until the Six is in! Hawg led the pack, establishing himself as a beast with a time of 7:18. War Eagle opted for a couple laps after 1.5 burpees, Triple showed up coiffed and just after the main Thang ended—shocker. A game of FastTax’s brainchild, ultimate frisburpee, ensued, resulting in Thumb War’s consternation with the rule differences from the far less interesting ultimate frisbee. The end result was the non-R.E.D. Team lost 1-0.

  • Crawl Under a Train & Catch Me if you Can – from Hokie

    YHC texted via Mumblechatter at 0510 to avoid coming to el Diablo via Metairie Road due to a train being STOPPED and to come in via Airline.

    Meanwhile two Pax decided to add an adventure to their pre-workout ventures by crawling UNDER the damn Ol Train like they were in a Hank Williams song.

    At 0530 YHC tried to get a disclaimer in between repeated interruptions by some unnamed “two ply” and then held a VERY Brief warm-o-rama with Abe Vigodas and Grass grabbers before lining the Pax up for an exercise to complete the warm up… The exercise would be called “go under the train” based on the stories of War Eagle and Hand Grenada’s journey in this AM… we lined up on the goal line and inch wormed out towards the 50, did 5 merkins, stood up and rinse and repeated about a dozen times (some would say 60 merkins warmed up our shoulders)

    we then moseyed to the track, around the 50 yard line to start our adventures. Imagine six points on the track
    1. 50 yard line
    2. Goal line
    3. Around the end zone to the goal line across field from #2
    4. the 50 yard line across field from #1
    5. The next goal line
    6. around end zone to goal line across field from #5 and 100 yards away from #1 😉

    The THANG
    at each of the 6 points we would do 10 reps of exercise called out by the Q then another exercise while waiting on the six.

    We would then rotate through a series of “MODES of transportation” between points as follows
    1-2 above ~ Mosey
    2-3 above ~ Sprint
    3-4 above backwards mosey as fast as possible
    4-5 above Lunge walk
    5-6 above backwards Lunge
    6-1 Sprint

    Round 1 ~ At each of the six points we would do 10 Burpees and then Imerial Walkers while waiting on the six
    Round 2 ~ 10 Merkins and SSH while waiting on the six
    Round 3 ~ 10 sit ups with arms crossed and squats while waiting on the six

    Between 0601 and 0605, we stopped and did 4 minutes of calf raises with both legs, then just right leg, then just left leg, then both legs.

    YHC was pleased later in the day to see Hawg’s post in mumble chatter stating this type of format lead to an elevated heart rate for a good portion of our morning.

  • Wherever two or , well two… are gathered – from Hokie

    War Eagle & Hokie decided since Short Bus & T-Square we’re out of town, we would mosey to support the Wank

    We did not count on being the only two, but, since we were, we worked out on our “only the fly ruck plate” Q

    Warm-o- Rama then mosey to The Framers market with ruck plates in hand.

    10 reps at each pillar of the Farmers Market…

    Round 1 – all 8 pillars, 10 curls each pillar
    Round 2 – 7 pillars – – rows
    Round 3 – 6 pillars – one arm shoulder press (3xL & 3xR)
    Round 4 – 5 “pillars” – chest presses
    Round 6 – 4 pillars – shoulder presses
    Round 7 – 3 pillars – low slow Squats
    Round 8 – at benches – step ups 10 L/10R
    Round 9 – 1 pillar -Triceps

    Mosey back stopping for Merkin Ladder & Mary

  • Kindergarten Day! – from PVC

    Warmorama
    Low slow squat
    Abe vigoda
    Peter Parker
    Parker Peter
    Hill billy
    Imperial walker
    Self love
    Butt kickers

    10 each
    Merkins
    Bear crawl
    Big boy sit ups
    Lunge
    Grass grabbers

    5 each
    8 count body builders
    Motivators
    Monkey humpers
    Mountain man poopers

    10 each
    Merkins
    Bear crawl
    Big boy sit ups
    Lunge
    Grass grabbers

    Frisbee
    2 teams each start at same end zone in efforts to reach the goal without dropping the frisbee. 2 defenders allowed to cross to other side. Once point scored opponents do 5 each 8 count body builders
    Totaled approx 2mi.

    COT
    Welcomed FNG and named him Faux Pas